By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 30, 2011 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features | Comments Off on CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY AND RECOMMENDED READING FROM FRANK VIOLA
Syncretism slithers deeper into spiritually spineless evanjellyfish every day and Apprising Ministries continues to point it out for you wherever we find it. Dominionism is fast becoming a hot topic and it’s tied to the idea of “changing the world” and supposedly bringing ” God’s dream for the world” to fruition. The key is to […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 29, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren, Southern Baptist Convention | Comments Off on CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY/MYSTICISM INVADES EVANGELICALISM WITH RICK WARREN AND KAY WARREN LEADING THE CHARGE
In previous pieces like Rick Warren Wants Us To Learn From Henri Nouwen and Kay Warren, Henri Nouwen, And Contemplative Spirituality here at Apprising Ministries I continued on documenting the slide of the Protestant evangelical community back into the religious slavery of romanticized Roman Catholic mysticism. Even being someone who is not formally educated, I can see that the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 27, 2011 in Current Issues, Features | Comments Off on JACK HAYFORD AND C. PETER WAGNER ON SPIRITUAL MAPPING
Jack Hayford clearly believes this spiritual mapping mythology himself. Here he introduces Wagner, founder of the New Apostolic Reformation and at the time a professor at Fuller Theological Seminary, who goes on to tell us the Emperor of Japan had sexual relations with the Sun Goddess. See also: DENYING DOMINIONISM WHAT IS DOMINIONISM? C. PETER […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 6, 2011 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren, Southern Baptist Convention | Comments Off on RICK WARREN, JOHN PIPER & CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY/MYSTICISM
For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. (1 Corinthians 14:33) So Tell Me, Which Way Is The Wind Blowing? For at least the past six years now online apologetics and discernment ministries like Herescope, as well as here at Apprising Ministries, have warning about the growing infestation within evangelicalism of critical thinking […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 14, 2011 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention | Comments Off on DR. ED YOUNG PROMOTING CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY/MYSTICISM FOR HIS SOUTHERN BAPTISTS
For at least the past six years now online apologetics and discernment ministries like Lighthouse Trails Research, as well as here at Apprising Ministries, have been warning about the sinfully ecumenical [i.e. Reformation repudiating] Emergent Church aka the Emerging Church. Sadly, it’s now grown into a neo-liberal cult operating within evangelicalism infecting it with their new […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 14, 2011 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Southern Baptist Convention | Comments Off on PROMOTING CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY/MYSTICISM OK IN SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION
Lately I’ve written pieces like “Good” Experiences Aren’t Necessarily From God and Supernatural Gatherings In The New Downgrade here at this online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries showing the sad slide of largely pretending to be Protestant evangelicalism and the growing falling away of the mainstream visible Christian community. I’ve been documenting all of this for you as well as giving you much […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 7, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features | Comments Off on FOCUS ON THE FAMILY DISRESPECTS LIGHTHOUSE TRAILS TO PROMOTE CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY/MYSTICISM
For at least the past six years now online apologetics and discernment ministries like Lighthouse Trails Research, as well as here at Apprising Ministries, have warning about the sinfully ecumenical [i.e. Reformation repudiating] Emergent Church aka the Emerging Church. Sadly, it’s now grown into a neo-liberal cult operating within evangelicalism infecting it with their new […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 27, 2011 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features | Comments Off on REVIEW: THE LIFE YOU'VE ALWAYS WANTED, SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINES FOR ORDINARY PEOPLE BY JOHN ORTBERG
The following by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission: Ortberg, a teaching pastor at Willow Creek Community Church, published The Life You’ve Always Wanted in 1997 and expanded it in 2002. The book provides a good taste of the style and content of the teaching at […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 15, 2011 in Current Issues | Comments Off on RON LUCE OF TEEN MANIA LEADING YOUR YOUTH INTO SPIRITUAL BONDAGE
And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. (2 Peter 2:3) Mysticism Is Now A Force Uniting Apostates Apprising Ministries is an online apologetics and discernment work which has specialized in analyzing current trends in the visible church, apprising you as to what they are, and informing you as to how you […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 9, 2011 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features | Comments Off on DONALD WHITNEY, MYSTICISM, AND SPIRITUALITY WITHOUT BOUNDARIES
by Bob DeWaay In 1971, when I was a new Christian and in Bible College, I had the desire to be the best possible Christian. And while the Holy Spirit imparts to all Christians a desire for holiness (an obvious good thing), potential pitfalls that can lead us off course and harm us always exist. […]